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Innovative technologies<br />

KEY TAKEAWAYS<br />

Policymakers need new solutions<br />

to harness innovation<br />

Industries can benefit from being<br />

disrupted by new technologies<br />

An internet cafe in Guilin, China<br />

Growth through<br />

innovation<br />

Policymakers can utilise the new industrial revolution<br />

to promote entrepreneurialism and new ecosystems,<br />

writes Angel Gurría<br />

Our global economy is beset by<br />

financial vulnerability, slowing<br />

productivity, environmental<br />

degradation and rising<br />

inequalities. Many countries<br />

have stagnating or declining populations<br />

and face diminishing returns from labour<br />

inputs and investment in physical capital.<br />

Policymakers need new solutions that<br />

harness opportunities through innovation.<br />

Boosting productivity<br />

Innovation takes many forms, such as<br />

new and better products and production<br />

processes, new marketing methods and<br />

changes in business practices and better<br />

workplace organisation. It underpinned<br />

about one-third of total growth in gross<br />

domestic product between 1995 and 2013<br />

by boosting productivity and it will be<br />

tomorrow's driving force behind economic<br />

growth and societal progress.<br />

100 <strong>G20</strong> China: The Hangzhou Summit • September 2016 G7<strong>G20</strong>.com

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